Paul Rudd confuses Britney Spears with British beers and we've all been there mate

Happens to the best of us.
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Paul Rudd confuses Britney Spears with British beers and we've all been there mate
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Look, we get it. British accents can be hard to decipher sometimes. (I'm British, I'm allowed to admit that).

On BBC Radio 1's Unpopular Opinion segment, a caller declared to Marvel star Paul Rudd their wholly incorrect opinion that "How I Met Your Mother is better than Friends!" First of all: wow, no.

But as this mistaken human attempted to defend his position, he said that "How I Met Your Mother had Britney Spears on an episode."

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"British beers?" replied Rudd.

"Oh, Britney Spears," he said, after Greg James corrected him. "They had British beers in an episode? I actually got Britney Spears mixed up with British beers."

Happens to the best of us, Paul.

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Features Editor and author Rachel Thompson
Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more. Rachel is the author of two non-fiction books, both published by Penguin Random House. Her second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now.


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